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Harry Truman was in the White House, Old Glory had just 48 stars, and the Dodgers were still Brooklyn's beloved Bums when the international treaty outlawing genocide was first sent to the U.S. Senate for ratification in 1949. In the intervening years, every American President except Dwight D. Eisenhower has endorsed the pact, and 96 nations, including the Soviet Union, have confirmed it. Last week the Senate finally approved the treaty by a vote of 83 to 11. Said Majority Leader Robert Dole: "We have waited too long to delay further...
Reagan, the nation's oldest President (Dwight Eisenhower was a less than sprightly 70 when he left office), has become virtually a symbol of eternal youth. Unlike many who reach his age and peer back into the past, Reagan is still taking a bead on what lies ahead. Just as Lyndon Johnson and the Democratic Congresses of the 1960s and '70s sought to stretch the upper limits of America's willingness to pay for an expanded Government role in the nation's domestic life, Reagan seeks to test the lower limits of that willingness. By tilting gain at the ramparts...
Like the old-time revivalists to whom they are the natural successors --George Whitefield, Charles Finney, Dwight L. Moody, Billy Sunday--today's televangelists tend to be mavericks, outside of denominational control and resourceful about using entertainment and new technology to find their audiences. When radio was born, the early networks wanted no part of troublesome evangelists. They encouraged stations to donate time for network shows produced in cooperation with the liberal Federal (later National) Council of Churches, as well as Catholic and Jewish agencies. In early TV, too, the networks continued to give traditional denominations free time, in effect...
...result, the Standing Committee of the Faculty on Middle Eastern Studies, under the chairmanship of Professor Dwight Perkins, will take a much more active role in the oversight of the Center and its policies. There are some important immediate policy matters to take up. One is whether the CMES needs to supplement the policies of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences with respect to grants and contracts, to take account of the special features of the region in which scholars in the field function. For example, the Committee and the director should consider whether, given the particular circumstances...
...wild turkeys to Idaho. The trading has even taken on an international flavor. Michigan made an across-the-border swap with Canada: wild turkeys for moose. "It's like trading baseball cards," says Steven Gray, an Ohio wildlife official. "Say I have a Pete Rose and you have a Dwight Gooden. Arkansas has wild turkeys and wants ruffed grouse. We've got ruffed grouse...